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It's his new novel. Also coming out in an unsigned hardback edition from Tor in mid-March. -Matt…
04 Feb 2010, 17:41
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Information here. I admit I am sorely tempted. http://www.subterraneanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=wolfe01&Category_Code=PRE&Product_Count=28 -Matt…
04 Feb 2010, 17:05
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Penny Arcade has mentioned The Book of the New Sun before. It was some time before I'd read Wolfe, though I'd heard of him and had been meaning to read him. I owe Penny Arcade some…
13 Jan 2010, 16:51
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Severian's a generally dishonest and unreliable narrator, but he does tell SilkHorn that he won't ever tell of their meeting. As Sev probably doesn't completely understand how much…
12 Jan 2010, 19:12
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I don't think you're reading too much into this at all. I played the game myself and noticed it. Someone on the Killzone 2 team has good taste in literature — the second level is c…
04 Jan 2010, 20:21
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At Readercon, Wolfe talked about his pleasure in writing AEG, but didn't give any real plot hints aside from saying Reis was a villain who wanted to rule the world. -Matt…
07 Oct 2009, 23:10
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I just read about Last Drink Bird Head, a new anthology of flash fiction edited by Jeff and Ann Vandemeer. From what I gather, all the stories (which, being flash fiction, are VERY…
25 Sep 2009, 01:58
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If we're going this direction, it might be significant that many Catholic sf writers are converts. Walter Miller Jr. converted to, and later from, Catholicism. Wolfe was a convert.…
22 Sep 2009, 20:32
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I've heard Wolfe call him Gideon Chase. He may have said he was a hero at the same time - he certainly said Reis was, for all his good points, a villain. -Matt…
10 Sep 2009, 21:32
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James, Thanks for the very good and thorough account. If I recall correctly, he said he'd done two rewrites of this next book, apparently called Home Fires, when I spoke to him a…
09 Sep 2009, 12:56
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No cover or blurb yet, but release date is apparently March 16, 2010. http://www.amazon.com/Sorcerers-House-Gene-Wolfe/dp/076532458X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1248897819&sr=8-1 -Mat…
29 Jul 2009, 20:05
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I think "mews" is much less obscure in other parts of the world. In Ireland at least there were lots of places with "mews" in the name and lots of very nice converted stables calle…
26 Jul 2009, 16:32
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And yet the colloquial usage of "begs the question" does make sense; it's a nice and colorful shorthand. Less irritating than trying to figure out the definition of "nonplussed." …
23 Jul 2009, 01:29
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I never did see Cisco (though I bought two of his books on sale, as I've heard they're good), but there was a minute or two that I saw where Gene Wolfe, John Crowley, and Samuel D…
21 Jul 2009, 15:25
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It wasn't very specific or prolonged; he just said he liked her and thought she was underrated. Allen Steele disagreed with him, but the conversation was quite short. -Matt…
20 Jul 2009, 17:48
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Forgot to mention that someone asked Wolfe about the prospect of another Latro book. He didn't rule it out, but did say he's getting older. -Matt…
20 Jul 2009, 01:20
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As I wouldn't have learned of Readercon were it not for this list, I think I would be remiss if I didn't tell you something about the convention. Readercon was in Burlington, Mass…
19 Jul 2009, 02:57
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How about this 1811 dictionary? It has all three. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5402 -Matt…
10 Jul 2009, 23:30
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That's pretty great. Makes me want to go and dig out the bilingual Villon I bought for a college French class on medieval violence. Thieves' cant shows up in quite a few Victorian…
10 Jul 2009, 04:23
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Sorry if I inadvertently sent any of you LinkedIn requests - I tried to remove all Urth people from the auto-generated invite list, but I think a few messages may have slipped by. …
04 Jul 2009, 02:36
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Didn't realize you still subscribed to Urth, though I did see your name on the Readercon guest list. I take it you'll be appearing on some panels? In any case, if I go, I'll make s…
26 Jun 2009, 02:26
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Thanks for the heads-up. Might have to check out ReaderCon.... Wolfe only thirty miles from my house? Damn. -Matt…
24 Jun 2009, 23:58
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I've always liked that blog; I wish I had as much time to read as does the proprietor. This is saying a lot, as I read a lot more books than most people. I haven't read Harrison, …
07 May 2009, 02:48
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Perhaps you could get a "talking book"? I guess it's some sort of computer-generated audio book created for visually-impaired readers? Though I can't imagine it would do well with …
03 May 2009, 05:08
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As far as I can tell, Wolfe hasn't appeared in large print editions. I used the Large Print Search on largeprintbooks.com, which searches Amazon for LP books, but apparently no LP …
03 May 2009, 05:03
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I didn't see your Facebook page when I searched, nor did I see Lane's. I guess some Urthlings are just hard to find. (Feel free to friend me; several of you already have) -Matt…
02 May 2009, 03:05
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I was going to friend you on Facebook, but there seem to be several people with your name... I could cross-reference with Wolfe groups, I suppose... Odd how many people share name…
30 Apr 2009, 01:29
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I'm on Facebook too - Matthew Keeley.There's more than one person with my name, so I'll say that I'm listed as a student at Boston College and at Trinity College Dublin. -Matt…
29 Apr 2009, 17:34
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My Catholic all-guys high school had copies of The Wizard and The Knight; that is not, however, how I got into Wolfe.I remember that the librarians put both books on display (along…
20 Apr 2009, 03:37
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I didn't think I'd get it. And I do like it sometimes - I'm actually fairly fond of the talus section, for example, or the section on librarian recruitment in Shadow. -Matt…
15 Apr 2009, 13:11
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Short Sun frustrates me a bit; it has some wonderful moments like the sewers on Green, and it's nice to see certain returning characters, but I think Wolfe overdoes (or his charact…
15 Apr 2009, 04:38
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Best of luck to you and your important person. Perhaps watch Memento as well? And books on forgetting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/apr/18/top10s.forgetting (Looks like …
01 Apr 2009, 04:21
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I can bring myself to visit lefty websites, so surely a short visit to the NRO won't kill anyone? I love the way this comes up right after the whole "Politics of Gene Wolfe" debac…
30 Mar 2009, 18:06
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_of_Cascia The saint's life seems thematically relevant to AEG: Her love turns a bad man into a good one. What's this about R's little brother in…
29 Mar 2009, 21:55
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And I think Wolfe is also making a joke to his readers: "Good Fishing" for clues. Wolfe laughs and wonders if his readers will ever make head or tail of the book. -Matt…
20 Mar 2009, 21:02
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Has anyone here read this book? I'm not going to discuss the plot here, as I don't want this thread to be immediately spoilery, but I think there's a lot in the book to appeal to W…
18 Mar 2009, 22:02
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(SPOILER ALERT OF SORTS) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The one with the dog? "Reader, she bit him." -Matt…
18 Mar 2009, 19:46
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I was in SF a few weeks back and, though I expected it to be very liberal, I was surprised by some of the goings-on I heard about. The trip I was on visited Alcatraz. Great, and in…
18 Mar 2009, 19:35
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I haven't read GR; the only Pynchon books I've read are The Crying of Lot 49 and Against the Day (which is actually a lot longer than GR). I think you might enjoy Lot 49 - it's les…
18 Mar 2009, 19:30
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Disch makes Moorcock's list of dystopias, while Le Guin makes Susanna Clarke's segment on "imagined worlds". http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/22/1000-novels-fiction-fantas…
23 Jan 2009, 04:58
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I think it would look more or less cylindrical from the inside; the various bumps and protrusions on the outside of the asteroid might be hollowed out as well, but they might house…
22 Jan 2009, 03:41
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I believe it's an unkindness of ravens and a murder of crows. I don't know if there's any special name for a group of choughs. -Matt…
08 Jan 2009, 01:40
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I gather he was asked to contribute, but declined? I think George R.R. Martin said something to that effect in the comments section on his blog. Odd - Wolfe has done so many pasti…
19 Dec 2008, 00:03
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William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land? And of course there is that upcoming Vance tribute anthology, Songs of the Dying Earth. -Matt…
15 Dec 2008, 16:14
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I remember there was some discussion a while back of Jack Vance's autobiography. Apparently Subterranean Press is publishing it in 2009. I'm guessing I won't be the only member of …
15 Dec 2008, 15:06
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Joking is good. Hence my link to "Shinji's Rant". Theoretical physics is insane. In a good, mind-blowing way. -Matt…
13 Dec 2008, 04:20
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We have Eva fans here? And I thought I was the only one. I'd love to have an involved debate, but I think I agree with everything you said. I do think Eva is atheistic (or I think…
13 Dec 2008, 04:07
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I know Moorcock published at least one of Wolfe's stories, so perhaps he was making a Paradise Lost reference AND homaging Moorcock? The problem there is that Moorcock and Wolfe a…
11 Dec 2008, 18:35
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As has been stated elsewhere, Gideon is (or pretends to be) the sort of pulp hero that kids of all ages love - he's dashing, he's mysterious, he has a cool car. He's like Batman or…
11 Dec 2008, 16:34
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Not to go too off-topic, but have you seen The Devil's Backbone? It's one of del Toro's earlier films, and I think much more morally and thematically interesting than Pan's Labyrin…
06 Dec 2008, 18:11
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